From their feature film debut with the exquisite India-set drama “The Householder” in 1963 to their final collaboration on 2005’s sumptuous historical epic “The White Countess,” director James Ivory ...

There’s often been unfair snobbery about the films of Merchant Ivory, the production banner founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, which gives Stephen Soucy’s ...

My top three are The Remains of the Day (1993), starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, Maurice (1987), starring James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves, and Howards End (1992), for which ...

Theirs was one of the longest partnerships in cinema history (1961-2007), almost defining independent filmmaking, that is now being profiled definitively in the new conventional documentary "Merchant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The overall deal includes the acquisition of the Merchant Ivory brand and the worldwide distribution rights to 21 features, along ...

The films produced by Ismail Merchant and directed by James Ivory – ranging from 1985's "A Room with a View" to "Remains of the Day" (1993) – were sometimes dismissed as "pretty but anodyne period ...

In a new documentary, Merchant Ivory (named for the company the pair established in 1961), actor ­Helena Bonham Carter notes how she expected the older Ivory to pass away before his business and life ...

It seems fitting that new film The White Countess tells of the end of an era and a friendship because it also marks the final collaboration of filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. For 44 years, ...

There’s a moment in the exquisite Merchant Ivory adaptation of A Room with a View when Lucy Honeychurch (beautifully played by an 18-year-old Helena Bonham Carter) faints after witnessing a stabbing ...

Ismail Merchant, the Indian film producer who died yesterday at 68, was for more than 40 years one of the most unorthodox but successful independent filmmakers in Hollywood. With his partner James ...

Ismail Merchant's death in May 2005 made one thing clear for director James Ivory '" that he would not make another film in India. "I don't feel I know India anymore," 79-year-old Ivory said. Ivory ...